Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Ratings: blah week for syndies

There wasn't much movement for syndie game shows in the January 30-February 5 week. And what movement there was, was down. TV News Check has posted the less than lively household ratings...

Family Feud 7.4 - down a couple ticks for all those daily runsWheel of Fortune 6.9 - down a tickJeopardy 6.7 - flatMillionaire 1.8 - flatCelebrity Name Game 1.4 - flat, it was that kind of week

GSN has started plugging Divided as their new "hit show." The quizzer has produced decent ratings and demos, even if "hit" is a little bit of an exaggeration. But it's been so long since a new original on GSN even pulled okay numbers, that I can pardon the network for some puffery.

Meanwhile, GSN had some other news to be happy about. 468K/320K viewers prime time/total day for the week of February 6-12. The network ranked 30th and 29th in the windows. Best viewer totals and ranks in a while.

Syndicated game show ratings

GSN and Buzzr schedules

This blog's reason for existence

From the most brilliant, insightful and all-round swell Game Show Forum thread ever created:

I'm going to take the Abell approach here...

You're going to find that doesn't work well here, which is one of the reasons Mr. Abell took his business elsewhere.

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